The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-03-16

burial services. After ihese the double quar-
tette. composed of Mrs. Shelly. soprano
Miss Cavanagh. alto; Mrs. Grant. soprano !;
roth, tenors Mr. Brown, Mr.. siews. bs>so /;
and chorus of sixty voices sang the burial
chant. Lord Let Me Know Mine End
The lesson read by DR., Hall and prayer
was delivered by Rev. :. b. Halliday. The
rest of the musical program was as follows !;
Anthem, Blessed Are The Departed. :"
Spohr; hymn, Jesus Lover OF My Soul -
Zundel; sentence, 81 Heard A Voice.
Shelley; hymn, Sc Hark, Hark, Ny Soul "
The organ was presided over by Henry Eyre
Brown and General Horafio G. King
DIR. HALLS FUNERAL GRAFTON
After the first lesson DIR. Hall commenced
his Grafton During its delivery there was
not dry eye in the house and several times
he was compelled to stop for short time to
gain control of his voice. He said
The hand that rests SO still yonder laid
aside the pen over page of the unfinished
'' Life of Christ Possibly the last flash Of
thought, as the conviction grew upon him Of
the probable end of life. was that his life was
10 be leit unfinished-that he had not told
all men that he would have them know of
precious revelation Possibly as the spirit
fed away to be with Christ, whom he had
been serving. the full knowledge came to
him of that shoreless ocean of eternal life
which is 10 know God and Jesus Christ.
whom He had sent, that is the beatific vision
the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.
W. dwell on one tiny bay of it here and
dream about it,
rhedeparted saints of God have already put
out on its immeasureabe spaces and learned
that the life Of Christ is never finished. II is
the one word of God which is ever spoken,
cchoing again and agin on and on with cease
les revcrberation down the centuries.
II there was one thing that stirred the
heart that now rests from its labors, NOR.
than any other that mas marked his life "a
makes his memory precious to us now. It
was his many-Sided utterances of Christ
living, a going about among men, master
VINO first and last asks us to believe in HIM
rather than Ia believe what Others say about
Him. The radical question of this age has
9. .en Sc Is there "a faculty of illuminated
reason to recognize a living Christ who cen
talk 10 us and by the great communication
of His mind and spirit directly lead Us into
an truths" As monarchies and hereditary
institutions, and, at last African slavery,
have fallen TO the dust, the question gathers
voice and insists upon an answer. 1t will unt
he put off by any compromises with past or
derS and institutions, but rcnews itself at
every turn, echoes in every advance in >cieuce
and art, comes up in every development of
literature and social progress
ANtS oF THE PEOPLE CHHlsrwARD
Is there a faith in Christ behind the con-
Sciousness of the individual that can be la
him the very word OF tiod-the Illuminated
mandatory conscience, In a country that
dreams ~ yet of a government OF the people
10y the people and for the people, that que--
ton is inevitable, and, even if it should send
the sword among Us for awhile in the effort
for peace ii must be answered 1t is not an
accident then, altogether that the man
whose life has been moulded by that ques-
ton and its possible answers should have
paused on the unfinished volume of the
" Life of Christ He has been a man of the
people, Christward
We remind you that, though the English
speaking race to-day mourns his fall and re-
cosnizes his loss, Americans feel that he has
been great leader or adviser in the guild
anne of all manner of substantial interests
though the Legislature of the State has paid
him the unusual honor of adiourning as his
right though the press and divines and
orators uf all degrees are trying To- compass
the mighty theme, in glowing words. in words
Of exulting grief that we have had him with
u - long and have lost him. vet that a. he
lies ther- - quiet we may look at him as
one who has been through all and ia all
things, an APOSTLE of one suprem thought,
preacher of the everlasting gospel Of the
eyer-living Christ.
You who know him best, you who have
listened To him in this church. know well
that first, last and always, in no barrei or
dreaming sense, his life has been absorbed in
this work and hid with Christ in God. In
the prayers which he breathed out here for
forty years so simply, you have been hearing
an inner echo, as if it had come out of the
hart of Jesus In his ordinary teachin., in
lectures and sermons the one thought in
them has been to lead you to believe not
sIluc,hing about Christ. but TO helive Him
self